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Rafael-Evitan Grombelka develops a new sign language poetry performance responding to Gunter Trube's role as a royal advisor in Akiko Hada's video opera The Fall of a Queen, or The Taste of Fruit to Come (1991). The work takes Trube's role as a starting point and expands it into its own sign language poetic perspective, reflecting and further exploring the political and linguistic hierarchies of the opera.
The performance also connects to Grombelka's earlier engagements with Trube's work, particulary Cinderella and Schnee. By translating material from video into live performance, the archival content is not only received but embodied, updated, and performatively renegotiated. At the same time, the work is an artistic commemoration of Gunter Trube, with whom Grombelka had both a personal and artistic connection.
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![ELA EIS, Miracle Whip [Befreit], 1979, Filmstill](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_desktop_crop/public/media/images/2024-04/Ela_Eis.jpg?h=ffef0b99&itok=FSVcjGDy "ELA EIS, Miracle Whip [Befreit], 1979, Filmstill, © ELA EIS, 2024")
